AWJ Glass Ltd – Growing a successful quality brandname

Andy Whitelaw, AWJ Glass Ltd. & Matthias Bialkowski, ALBAT+WIRSAM Software (UK) LTD.

At AWJ, a highly innovative Medium-Sized glass processing company in Yorkshire, the „feeding“ of their CNCcentre BAVELLONI ALPA 323-4n has become quicker and noticeably more reliable with the CAM-DXF system. Together, software- and machinesupplier have established a precision CAD-transfer format which contains, in addition to the geometrical data, all necessary machine control information – available when necessary as well for multiple machine types in the AWJ processing chain. Vacuum cup positioning, automatic and exact preprocessing and end positioning, correct tool selection, etc., are now already implemented up-front by CAM-DXF– manual programming of machinery is a thing of the past.

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The Authors

Andy Whitelaw Managing Director AWJ Glass Ltd. It was in 1983 that I first became involved in the glass industry. My first company, Andy Whitelaw Joinery Ltd, started as a small local company doing no more than your average joinery company. It did... Read more